"A white paper [PDF] published by the Home Office on January 26 includes plans to fund 40 more LFR-equipped vans in addition to ten already in use. These will be used in "town centres and high crime hotspots" with the government planning to spend more than £26 million on a national facial recognition system and £11.6 million on LFR capabilities. It will also set up a bespoke legal framework for the technology's use."
"AI is the Home Office's priority technology for policing with plans to spend £115 million over the next three years on a new National Centre for AI in Policing. The organization, to be known as Police.AI, will identity, test, and expand use of the technology across forces from this spring and publish a registry of use. Police.AI will initially focus on automating administrative work, including analysis of CCTV footage, production of case files, and crime recording and classification. It will also build on tools developed by the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme, whose transcription tool - we're told - has saved more than 33,000 hours of investigators' time."
The Home Office plans to fund 40 additional live facial recognition (LFR) vans alongside ten already in use, deploying them in town centres and high-crime hotspots. The government will spend more than £26 million on a national facial recognition system and £11.6 million on LFR capabilities and will establish a bespoke legal framework for the technology. The Metropolitan Police reported 962 arrests from September 2024 to September 2025 from 203 LFR deployments that produced 2,077 alerts including ten false positives. A High Court challenge followed a misidentification that led to fingerprint demands. The Home Office will invest £115 million over three years to create Police.AI to identity, test, expand, and publish a registry of AI tools, initially automating CCTV analysis, case-file production, and crime recording.
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